On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Mark Duckworth 
<mduckworth@atari-source.org> wrote:
Attempts to update result
      in various difficulties like lack of mmap().  Not sure how Alan is
      working around that, just renaming calls to malloc (which would
      work) or what.
 Whoa, wait. Lack of mmap() is a problem maybe in 1% of all software which is available (I can think of git and... yes, the rpm). All the normal stuff, starting from 'bash' and ending with 'python' can be build using normal ./configure --host=m68k-atari-mint && make && make install. You can see that in Alan's releases and also in Vincent's unofficial builds. It's really mainly matter of packaging.